Pagan FeastsPagan Festivals always accompany the incisions in Life, whether individually or collectively.
In other words, they mark the End of an Old and the Beginning of a new Period.
Inevitably are the regular changes that accompany the change of Seasons.
Parsifalrain, June 20

Nature itself requires the custom to celebrate the luxuries of Life during the transitional periods and to look forward to the coming period in full and satisfied.
In the festive centre are the higher powers that are invocated for good Year and Peace.
Sacrifices to the Gods are not an act of renunciation which we suffer, but an act of sharing and gratitude for our well-being.
Giving and taking retaines the friendship and the confidence that the next time will be good and peaceful too.

Pagan Festivals are therefore very interested in a (whole) this-worldliness.
In the Pagan Ritual (here, in the Northern Hemisphere with the Old Norse word 'blót', denoted from 'blóta': 'Worshipping the Deity through sacrifices') testifies the celebrating Community that it sees itself as part of a larger Community in which the Ancestors, the Gods and Spirits of Nature have their place as well as the People.
The Ritual confirms the experience that the coexistence of all Life forms is the necessary basis for a Life of Salvation.